JULY 5TH, 1977, THE DARKEST DAY IN THE TURBULENT HISTORY OF PAKISTAN. AN ELECTED POLITICAL GOVERNMENT WAS TOPPLED, CONSTITUTION OF THE IRoP WAS DECLARED HELD IN ABEYANCE, MATIAL LAW WAS IMPOSED IN THE COUNTRY BY THE THEN COAS GEN. ZIA IBLEES, THE GREATEST ABDULLAH BIN UBAYEE OF ALL TIMES. I HAVE ALWAYS WRITTEN ABOUT GEN. ZIA AS ZIA IBLEES, THE GREATEST ABDULLAH BIN UBAYEE OF ALL TIMES. YOU CAN ASK ME WHY I WRITE ZIA AS ZIA IBLEES, THE GREATEST ABDULLAH BIN UBAYEE OF ALL TIMES. A VALID AND PERTINENT QUESTION. I SHALL SIMPLY ASK YOU TO READ BOOK BY GEN ® CHISHTI WHOSE FACE RESEMBLES THAT OF MALSHIAS OF JAHANGIR PARK, SADDAR, KARACHI, JUST LIKE RANA SANAULLAH FROM FAISALABAD, ENTITLED ‘BETRAYALS OF ANOTHER KIND’ AND YOU WILL FIND THE ANSWER. THIS IS THE SAME GEN CHISHTI WHO ARRESTED BHUTTO ON JULY 5TH 1977 FROM PM HOUSE IN ISLAMABAD AND WHO CLAIMED IN THE FOREWORD OF HIS ABOVE NOTED BOOK THAT IF SAME SITUATION ARISES AGAIN, HE WOULD PLAY THE SAME ROLE WHICH HE PLAYED ON JULY 5TH, 1977. WHY AND HOW MARTIAL WAS IMPOSED ON JULY 5TH, 1977? BASICALLY IT WAS THE GREED OF GEN ZIA IBLEES, THE GREATEST ABDULLAH BIN UBAYEE OF ALL TIMES FOR POWER THAT WAS AT WORK. I WAS WORKING IN THE PAKISTAN NAVY AT THAT TIME. THEREFORE, IN A SENSE I WAS AN EYE WITNESS TO THIS IMPOSITION OF MARTIAL LAW. THE CITY OF KARACHI AND SOME PARTS ADJACENT TO IT ARE UNDER THE CONTROL OF NAVAL AUTHORITY COMKAR (COMMANDER KARACHI) ADMINISTRATIVELY. WHENEVER CIVIL AUTHORITIES REQUIRE MILITARY ASSISTANCE IN AID TO CIVIL POWER, THEY CONTACT COMKAR. THEN COMKAR ORDERS UNITS UNDER IT CONTROL AND OTHER NAVAL AUTHORITIES TO ARRANGE LANDING PLATOONS AND SEND/DEPLOY THEM TO DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY. SAME PROCEDURE WAS ADOPTED IN THE TROUBLED DAYS OF 1977. I MYSELF WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE LANDING PLATOONS BUT MANY OF MY FRIENDS WERE THERE ON THE GROUND. THE POLITICAL AS WELL AS LAW AND ORDER SITUATION WAS TURNING BAD TO WORSE WITH EVERY DAY PASSING. IT APPEARED THAT ARMED FORCES WERE UNABLE TO CONTROL THE WORSENING SITUATION. WHENEVER OUR FRIENDS USED TO COME BACK FROM THAT DUTY WE USED TO ASK THEM ABOUT THE LATEST SITUATION. AND WHAT WAS DISCLOSED BY THOSE MEN ON THE GROUND WOULD TELL THE WHOLE STORY. THE LANDING PLATOONS USUALLY HAD A ROPE WITH THEM AND IT USED TO BE RIGGED AT A DISTANCE IN FRONT OF PROTESTING MOB. THE PLATOON INCHARGE USED TO SHOUT TO THE MOB ON A HAND HELD MEGAPHONE THAT THE ROPE MUST NOT CROSSED. OTHERWIE THEY WOULD BE FIRED FIRED AT. BUT STRANGE ENOUGH IN 1977, NO SUCH FIRING TOOK PLACE. WHY? BECAUSE PLATOON COMMANDERS WERE HAVING CLEAR CUT ORDERS FROM GHQ OR COAS FOR THAT MATTER ‘NOT TO FIRE AT PROTESTING MOBS’. SINCE THE PROTESTING MOB USUALLY CONSISTING OF JAMA’AT ISLAMI PEOPLE IN CONIVANCE WITH COAS ALREADY KNEW ABOUT THE GHQ ORDERS, THE MOB WAS CROSSING THE ROPE WITHOUT ANY FEAR. WHEN PROTESTING MOB USED TO CROSS THE ROPE, THE ROPE WAS MOVED BIT FARTHER. THUS THE GHQ OR ZIA IBLEES, THE GREATEST ABDULLAH BIN UBAYEE WAS DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN MAKING THE SITUATION FROM BAD TO WORST AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE WORST. THIS ALSO LEAD TO DISHEARTEN THE MEN IN PLATOONS AND AN IN-FIGHT STARTED TAKING PLACE IN THE PLATOONS. THIS WAS TERMED AS A FEAR OF MUTINY IN THE ARMED FORCES. SO IT BECAME A SUFFICIENT REASON FOR IMPOSITION OF MARTIAL LAW. ANOTHER FACT THAT THEORETICALLY ISI IS UNDER PM. THAT MEANS UNDER CIVILIAN CONTROL. BUT PRACTICALLY IT IS NOT SO. ISI IS ALWAYS HEADED BY A GENERAL. AND GENERALS ARE CLOSE TO COAS AND NOT TO PM. 1977 ISI WAS REPORTING DIRECT TO COAS AND NOT TO PM. THUS KEEPING PM IN THE DARK ABOUT THE REAL SITUATION ON THE GROUND. NOW COMES THE GREED FOR POWER OF ZIA IBLEES, THE GREATEST ABDULLAH BIN UBAYEE OF ALL TIMES. HOW HE BECAME COAS, REFLECTED CLEARLY ABOUT IT. HOW HE LICKED THE HANDS OF PM BHUTTO ON MULTAN AIRPORT, AND HOW HE ASKED SHAH HUSSAIN AND SHEIKH ZAID BIN SULTAN AL NAHYAN TO APPROACH PM BHUTTO TO APPOINT HIM AS COAS ARE OPEN SECRETS. THEN ONE THING WHICH HAD NEVER BEEN LOOKED INTO OR DISCUSSED IS ONE SENTENCE IN PROBABLE FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE HELD BY ZIA IBLEES, THE GREATEST ABDULLAH BIN UBAYEE OF ALL TIMES AND THAT SENTENCE WAS, ‘ AGAR ALLAH NAY KABHI MAUQA DIA TO’. NOW YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF THAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR A CHANCE TO GRAB THE POWER AND HE HIMSELF HELPED THE SITUATION TURN SO VOILENT THAT IT BECAME A REASON FOR IMPOSITION OF MARTIAL LAW.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:54:15 +0000
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